It is possible that the Herb Garret existed in the attic of St Thomas’s Church as early as 1703. It…
Admiral Arthur Phillip, founder of Sydney
Arthur Philip was born in London in 1738. He attended the Greenwich Hospital School and in 1753 joined a whaling boat.…
London Churches: St Martin-le-Grand
All that remains of St Martins is the road that was named after it just north of St Paul’s Cathedral.…
Black-Crowned Night Heron
The black crowned night Heron is a small Heron species is found in southern Europe, North and South America, Africa…
Free Course on History of Portus
The short course I did through Southampton University is still available through FutureLearn or at: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/portus
Visualising Portus
Here are a couple of videos on the visualisation project
Portus: Port of Rome
A couple of years back I had the opportunity to do a short course run by the University of Southampton…
Fitzrovia Chapel (3)
Some more photographs of the magnificent Fitzrovia Chapel in central London.
The London fences made from stretchers
Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
Famously many of the iron and steel railings in the U.K. were removed and melted down…
Turbulent waters
On the way back from Southend on the Jacob Marley, I became fascinated with the water being ejected from the…
